FIRST COMMERCIAL FUSION POWER PLANT AUTHORIZED
If you've been following all the hype on artificial intelligence data centers, then you'll want to pay attention to this story that was shared by P.T. and V.T., with our gratitude. In fact, I think this is such an important story, I'm going to leap right into it without any preliminary introductions such as I might usually do, and reserve my comments to my high octane speculation run to the end of the speculation twig, because once again, the weight of my speculation far exceeds the load bearing capability of the twig on which I'm standing:
Now, if you've read that article carefully, you'll have probably stumbled over the following paragraph, just like I did. I'm still picking myself up from that tumble, in fact, so I hope I cushioned your own fall:
US-based fusion energy company Helion has received the regulatory clearances to build the world’s first fusion energy power plant. The company has received a Radioactive Materials License (RML) and a Radioactive Air Emissions License (RAEL) from the Washington Department of Health (DOH), clearing the way to begin construction of the generator building at the power plant site.
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For all its benefits, nuclear fusion is still not a commercially available technology because the fusion reactors have not been able to generate more energy than they consume. Washington-state-based Helion Energy, though, is confident that it can achieve this fairly soon.
While it has not yet published any peer-reviewed papers demonstrating how its fusion reactor works, the company is proceeding to build a fusion reactor that it will deploy commercially. It also has an agreement in place with Microsoft to supply 50 MW of power to a data center from its fusion reactor by 2028.
The facility dubbed Orion is under construction in Malaga, Washington state and recently became the first such facility in the world to secure regulatory licenses to construct the nuclear plant. So far, the assembly and office building of the plant were completed but the recent grant of licenses from the DOH allows Helion to begin constructing the reactor as well. (Emphasis added)
So there you have it: a fusion reactor working on engineering principles as yet unrevealed, is being built to supply power, which as yet has to be demonstrated it can create, in the range of 50 megawatts, for an artificial intelligence data center being constructed by Micros**t, which has already apparently inked the deal with the fusion reactor builders. What is intriguing here is not the obvious though backhanded way that the energy consumption of these data centers is being acknowledged: "Building a data center? Better build that fusion reactor first (and hope the containment of the plasma does not suddenly fail... after all, as the article assures us, this is the same process that fuels the Sun)." What's really intriguing is what is being omitted in that 50 Megawatt power consumption: is that per year? per month? per week? per day? On can only assume that we're talking an enormous usage, in the per month or per week range. Otherwise, why bother to build a fusion reactor...
... which we don't even know will work yet, and which may consume more power than it produces(!), making this whole scheme sound like some insane plot of a Hollywood B movie.
Let all that sink in: a license has been granted to build a fusion reactor which is based on unknown engineering principles to supply megawatts of power for a data center for artificial intelligence of some sort, which does not work according to the billing for it by all the stories we've all heard thus far.
Or to put all this in the country simple way: they're now hyping fusion, which has yet to work, to supply power for AI data centers, which have yet to work...
This is beginning to look like the Tulip Bubble and the South Seas Bubble and junk bonds and the dot.com bubble, Ivan Boesky, Bernie Cornfeld, Larry Fink, Robert Vesco, and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, all rolled into one fantastic scam...
See you on the flip side...
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Maybe nuclear fusion development is way ahead of what we are officially being told?
I did report some time back that one of the side effects of running a fusion reactor is that the plasma in the chamber tries to lift it off the ground and it has to be bolted to the floor! Some sort of anti- gravity effect. I will try and find the report about that and post it.
So possibly the missing / dead scientists had some connection to obscure / enigmatic aspects of fusion research?
https://www.newsweek.com/wave-of-missing-or-dead-us-scientists-everything-we-know-11867967
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyw9rpdl4po
Republican governor Youngkin already signed Virginia up for a fusion power plant. When I read all the glowing articles I searched “what is wrong with fusion?”, and found out it was not even workable yet. Man oh man. https://www.naseo.org/news/article?NewsID=4098
https://richmondbizsense.com/2024/12/17/breaking-news-energy-startup-to-build-nuclear-fusion-power-plant-in-chesterfield/
Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems — “ The proposed power plant, which is known as ARC, is expected to be operational in the early 2030s. The facility is expected to generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of about 150,000 homes. CFS declined to share a cost estimate for the project.”.
Thank you for this story Dr Farrell. This story comes at a rather timely moment. Haven’t we all been following various news stories of a large amount of missing or recently passed scientist some being versed in nuclear fusion and related areas. This sorta sounds like something nefarious in the making with this recent approval. If nuclear fusion is where it’s at then why disappear/ murder those great minds . Could it be they all had morales
Living in WA state as I do, my first response was to find out where Malaga is, because I’d never heard of it . Answer: on the east side of the Cascades, about 6 miles south of Wenatchee and about halfway between Wenatchee and Rock Island on the Columbia river.
Not exactly a sparsely inhabited area and surprisingly close to a river that’s an important element of the regional ecologies downstream and all the way to the ocean. So I’m flabbergasted that they got a permit for this.
Another fusion hype, how sure are the scientists and engineers that they know how stars generate their power to begin with? And why do these data centers need that much power to run on, and what is the real reason our elites need them to begin with?
Great comment, I agree
a leap of faith to beat the Chinese before they cobble together their own AGI with 5x the footprint. It’s the atomic bomb race all over again. People complain about existing data center’s power generator noise, wonder what the environmental effects of a fusion reactor running 24/7 will bring?
First question: how’s the Stock Market doing?
Second observation: The announcement coincides with Spielberg’s newest Alien movie.
This March 9, 2026 posting from Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD calls for our prayers that this unlimited power source experiment fails. Current plans and developments are already nightmare scary. “Open AI leader resigns over Pentagon desire for AI Mass Surveillance of Americans and Lethal Autonomy without human authorization and possible Social Credit scoring. Pentagon refused to put in safeguards.” https://open.substack.com/pub/anamihalceamdphd/p/openai-leader-resigns-over-pentagon?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qjdl8
I guess the author of the article wasn’t aware of the fusion reactor well underway in the south of France.
https://www.iter.org/
Could nuclear fusion be another aspect of the ‘script’ our POTUS is cosplaying?
In sci-fi, Bill Gates’ replicator ticks infest space ships, while seeking out data centres, with energy sources, for procreation.
https://youtu.be/Z45Tpp9DBq4